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Summary
From America s number-one-bestselling crime writer, an electrifying new thriller with a twist.
For decades, Patricia Cornwell has demonstrated her extraordinary ability not just to entertain and enthrall, but also to surprise and AT RISK will surprise everyone. It is an audiobook filled with all the chilling suspense, rich characters, and trademark forensics that have made her an international phenomenon. But what Cornwell does with those ingredients is a revelation.
A Massachusetts state investigator is called home from Knoxville, Tennessee, where he is completing a course at the National Forensic Academy. His boss, the district attorney, an attractive but hard-charging woman, is planning to run for governor, and as a showcase she s planning to use a new crime initiative called At Risk, its motto Any crime, any time. In particular, she s been looking for a way to employ some cutting-edge DNA technology, and she thinks she s found it in a twenty-year-old murder in Tennessee. If her office solves the case, they ll all end up looking pretty good, right?
Her investigator is not so sure but before he can open his mouth, a shocking piece of violence intervenes . . . and they re about to get much worse.
Sparks fly, traps spring, twists abound this is the master working at the top of her game.
Jacket typographic design (c) Walter Harper
Jacket concept and photography by Lisa Amoroso
Broken glass by Tommy Campbell"
Author Notes
Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida on June 9, 1956. When she was nine years old, her mother tried to give her and her two brothers to evangelist Billy Graham and his wife to care for. For a while the children lived with missionaries since their mother was unable to care for them.
After graduating from Davidson College in 1979, she worked for The Charlotte Observer eventually covering the police beat and winning an investigative reporting award from the North Carolina Press Association for a series of articles on prostitution and crime in downtown Charlotte. Her award-winning biography of Ruth Bell Graham, the wife of Billy Graham, A Time for Remembering, was published in 1983. From 1984 to 1990, she worked as a technical writer and a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. While working for the medical examiner, she began to write novels. Although the award-winning novel Postmortem was initially rejected by seven different publishers, once it was published in 1990 it became the only novel ever to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d'Adventure, in one year.
She is the author of the Kay Scarpetta series, the Andy Brazil series, and the Winston Garano series. She has also written two cookbooks entitled Scarpetta's Winter Table and Food to Die For; a children's book entitled Life's Little Fable; and non-fiction works like Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Cornwell's latest-a stand-alone thriller that was originally serialized in the New York Times Magazine-is likely to disappoint even diehard fans of her bestselling Kay Scarpetta novels (The Body Farm, etc.). This time, the action is set in Boston, where an attractive and ambitious DA, Monique Lamont, seeks to use a new anticrime initiative to propel herself into the governor's mansion. Lamont plucks her top investigator, Winston Garano, from a special forensics course to probe an obscure cold case, but the detective's inquiries suggest that his boss may be playing a duplicitous game. The writing, pacing, characterizations and plot are far from Cornwell's best work, and the solution to the old murder mystery is anticlimactic. (May) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
Booklist Review
Originally published as a 15-part serial in the New York Times Magazine, this short novel stars Winston Garano, a Massachusetts forensic investigator who is assigned to crack a case that has been cold for two decades. While Win tries to figure out why his talents are being squandered on this lame-duck investigation, his boss, ambitious D.A. Monique Lamont, is almost rubbing her hands in anticipation of the launch of her new anti-crime program, dubbed At Risk. But will Win's investigation into the cold case further her agenda, or blow her plans? There are those who say Cornwell is only good when she's writing about Kay Scarpetta, and this relatively lifeless novel gives them plenty more ammunition. There is nothing interesting about the two leads, Garano and Lamont, and this makes it pretty hard to care about the story. The prose is flat, and even Cornwell herself seems uninterested in the proceedings. Devout fans, of whom there are many, will want to read everything by their favorite author, but everyone else would be well advised to stay away from this distinctly lesser offering from the best-selling Cornwell."--"Pitt, David" Copyright 2007 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Cornwell tries a new cast of characters in this brief mystery whereby a 20-year-old cold case in Tennessee catches the interest of an ambitious female Massachusetts D.A., who assigns it to her most trusted investigator. At times a political novel more than a forensic tale, this book has secrets and manipulations that cause intrigue in three states. Not as fully realized as the tired Scarpetta series, this new cast can offer Cornwell a new direction while still highlighting her familiar expertise. Although very well read by Kate Reading, the story feels a bit as if it were abridged. Recommended for mystery collections that like to mix the tried-and-true with the new.-Joyce Kessel, Villa Maria Coll., Buffalo, NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.